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PUBLIC LAW 86-550-JULY 26, 1958 COMPENSATION

SEC. 5. (a) The head of each department shall establish and may revise, from time to time, in accordance with this Act, the rates of basic compensation for positions and employees under his jurisdiction. (b) Such rates of basic compensation may be established and revised in relation to the rates of compensation for the same or similar work performed in the continental United States or in such areas outside the continental United States as may be designated in regulations promulgated under section 15(b) of this Act. (c) The head of each department may grant increases in such rates of basic compensation in amounts not to exceed the amounts of the increases granted, from time to time, by Act of Congress in corresponding rates of compensation in the appropriate schedule or scale of pay. The head of the department concerned may make such increases effective as of such date as he may designate but not earlier than the effective date of the corresponding increases provided by Act of Congress. (d) No rate of basic compensation established under this section shall exceed by more than 25 per centum, when increased by the amounts of the allowance and the differential authorized by section 7 of this Act, the rate of basic compensation for the same or similar work performed in the continental United States by employees of the Government of the United States. (e) The initial adjustments in rates of basic compensation under authority of this section shall be effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins more than sixty days after the date on which regulations are promulgated under section 15(b) of this Act. UNIFORM APPLICATION OF EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS AND RATES OF COMPENSATION

SEC. 6. The employment standards established under section 4 of this Act and the rates of basic compensation established under section 5 of this Act shall be applied uniformly, within and among all departments, to the respective positions, employees (other than employees who are citizens of the United States and are assigned to work in the Canal Zone on temporary detail), and individuals under consideration for appointment to positions, irrespective of whether the employee or individual concerned is a citizen of the United States or a citizen of the Republic of Panama. ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCE A N D D I F F E R E N T I A L

SEC. 7. (a) Each employee who is a citizen of the United States shall receive, in addition to basic compensation at the rate established under section 5 of this Act, such amounts as the head of the department concerned may determine to be payable, as follows: (il) an allowance for taxes which operate to reduce the disposable income of such United States citizen employee in comparison with the disposable incomes of those employees who are not citizens of the United States; and (2) an overseas (tropical) differential not in excess of an amount equal to 25 per centum of the aggregate amount of the rate of basic compensation established under section 5 of this Act and the amount of the allowance provided in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection.

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